Econlinks for 06-12-’07

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And Nicole says…(plus the song of the day)

Ok Seb, okok! I’ve got to admit it. You’ve earned it deserve it u’r da man, I owe you this one! 🙂 […] Nico, at your service…
(of course I only took the relevant parts from Nicole’s corresponding comment to this previous post of mine)

She might not be Paulina Porizkova (and after all I am not Steven Colbert :-)), but I promise you: you would not be ashamed with her :-).
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Econlinks for 27-11-’07

  • Becker and respectively Posner, on tax evasion. Why is tax compliance higher than one would expect (with a reservation here: it also follows from Posner’s argument than in fact tax evasion isn’t necessarily lower than rationally expected…) and is that mainly due to the rational fear of punishment or to the taxpayers’ feeling of moral duty/ fairness etc?
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One hour conversation with Richard Freeman (on YouTube)

Shortly after having posted a link to an IZA clip about Richard Freeman among a recent ‘econlinks’ post, I discovered, via Greg Mankiw, this other link to a very recent (October 31st) whole one hour interview with Freeman on YouTube, within the “Conversations with History” series, having Harry Kreisler as host.
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